Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 March 6



Category:Crystal Waters

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 07:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting crystal waters


 * Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary category per WP:OCEPON as it will only have Category:Crystal Waters albums and Category:Crystal Waters songs to populate it. -- Star cheers peaks news lost wars Talk to me 21:32, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom and WP:OCEPON. As always, everybody who has a WP:BLP does not automatically get an eponymous category for it too; this would be justified if there were a lot of spinoff content that required Waters-related categorization beyond the standard "albums cat" + "songs cat" + eponym scheme —, for example, crosses into books and films that need Cohen categories, his two children who are also both independently notable, several people whose notability specifically derives from collaborating with Cohen, and on and so forth. But if all there is to file here is the standard set of expected content, then an eponymous category is not warranted. Bearcat (talk) 17:17, 10 March 2017 (UTC)


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Far Western Conference football seasons

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:00, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:1925 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1925 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1926 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1926 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1927 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1927 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1928 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1928 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1929 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1929 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1930 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1930 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1931 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1931 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1932 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1932 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1933 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1933 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1934 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1934 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1935 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1935 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1936 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1936 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1937 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1937 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1938 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1938 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1939 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1939 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1940 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1940 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1941 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1941 Far Western Conference football season
 * Propose renaming Category:1942 Northern California Athletic Conference football season to Category:1942 Far Western Conference football season
 * Nominator's rationale: the Northern California Athletic Conference was known as the Far Western Conference until 1982. Jweiss11 (talk) 20:04, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Concur. Please include "1931" in this list as well. It was missing and I created it today when I created the 1931 Fresno State article. Ocfootballknut (talk) 04:11, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Added 1931.  thanks for commenting.  If you create more categories of this sort for years 1943 to 1982, just name them "Far Western Conference". Jweiss11 (talk) 16:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Support renaming per nom. Cbl62 (talk) 16:07, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Support -- We should use the contemporary names, but they can remain parented by a category using the present name. That is what we do with renamed countries.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:34, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * can we close this one? Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 23:02, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer nominations as large as this one to be closed by an admin. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:41, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * can you close this one? Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 02:48, 27 April 2017 (UTC)


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Category:Comedy video games

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete both. – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:03, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting comedy video games


 * Propose deleting comedy video game characters


 * Nominator's rationale: Previously discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games with consensus to nominate for deletion. Unlike film and television, "comedy" is not a defining genre of video games—not used academically and not used as a thematic genre in reviews. In addition and perhaps as a result, the category has unclear inclusion criteria. czar  18:54, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:OVERCAT and vague criteria not established by reliable sources. Copying my comments from VG talk page: It seems like the pages in it are included if they have any humor, and not necessarily as a defining characteristic. This sounds like very vague criteria that would include many games that are not centrally funny. Pretty much every adventure game with some quirky lines that a reviewer remarks as "funny" would then be included. As to tightening the criteria, "comedy" is not a widely used genre or theme as applied to video games or we would have comedy game. Without the main topic, a category is almost always going to be WP:OVERCAT WP:OR. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 20:44, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --The1337gamer (talk) 20:02, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, as we would have to know when to classify a video game as comedy, which is not yet the case. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 23:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Though a genre of film, theater, music, and prose fiction, comedy is not yet (and likely never will be) a recognized genre of video games. Thus, without reliable sources to definitively identify a game as "comedy", the bounds of this category are too difficult to define.--Martin IIIa (talk) 15:38, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Comedy can be on any game of any genres. Obviously. 00:50, 10 April 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:4F20:7E0:41A1:CBFA:AAA:6BA1 (talk)


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Category:Liberian Ambassador

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge and delete, or rename to the pattern "Category:Lists of ambassadors of Foo". – Fayenatic  L ondon 10:08, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting, renaming or merging per a previous discussion


 * Category:Liberian Ambassador
 * Category:Afghan Ambassador
 * Category:Algerian Ambassador
 * Category:Bahamian Ambassador
 * Category:Bahraini Ambassador
 * Category:Belizean Ambassador
 * Category:Beninese Ambassador
 * Category:Bosnian Herzegovinian Ambassador
 * Category:Bulgarian Ambassador
 * Category:Burkinabe Ambassador
 * Category:Cambodian Ambassador
 * Category:Cameroonian Ambassador
 * Category:Cape Verdean Ambassador
 * Category:Central African Ambassador
 * Category:Chadian Ambassador
 * Category:Congo-Brazzaville Ambassador
 * Category:Congo-Kinshasa Ambassador
 * Category:Croatian Ambassador
 * Category:Czech Ambassador
 * Category:Djiboutian Ambassador
 * Category:Dominican Ambassador
 * Category:Dutch Ambassador
 * Category:Eritrean Ambassador
 * Category:Estonian Ambassador
 * Category:Fijian Ambassador
 * Category:Gabonese Ambassador
 * Category:Kenyan Ambassador
 * Category:Kosovar Ambassador
 * Category:Kuwaiti Ambassador
 * Category:Kyrgyz Ambassador
 * Category:Laotian Ambassador
 * Category:Lebanese Ambassador
 * Category:Liberian Ambassador
 * Category:Liechtensteiner Ambassador
 * Category:Lithuanian Ambassador
 * Category:Macedonian Ambassador
 * Category:Malagasy Ambassador
 * Category:Malawian Ambassador
 * Category:Maldivian Ambassador
 * Category:Malian Ambassador
 * Category:Maltese Ambassador
 * Category:Marshallese Ambassador
 * Category:Mauritanian Ambassador
 * Category:Mauritian Ambassador
 * Category:Micronesian Ambassador
 * Category:Moldovan Ambassador
 * Category:Mosotho Ambassador
 * Category:Motswana Ambassador
 * Category:Nepali Ambassador
 * Category:North Korean Ambassador
 * Category:Norwegian Ambassador
 * Category:Omani Ambassador
 * Category:Palauan Ambassador
 * Category:Paraguayan Ambassador
 * Category:Portuguese Ambassador
 * Category:Ukrainian Ambassador
 * Category:Uruguayan Ambassador
 * Nominator's rationale: Bringing a series of categories created by user Regesta into line with established naming conventions for that category tree, and conventions specified at Category names. XXN, 18:15, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Rename each to the respective Category:Lists of ambassadors of Foo, per the Kazakh precedent. Oculi (talk) 23:12, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge all to "Ambassadors of Foo" or Lists of Ambassadors of Foo. These seem to be aberrant creations by some one who did not know what already exists.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:39, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Since these categories exist and they now form a complete tree, rename per Oculi. But frankly it's pretty unfortunate these categories have been created to begin with, since nearly all of them are a 1-item category, meaning that a category has been added to the list articles that doesn't allow to navigate to related articles because there aren't any. That doesn't really encourage the use of categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:50, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: seems that the author of these pages moved them to Category:Lists of ambassadors of Foo, as it was suggested. XXN, 13:47, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Support Merge/Rename to "Lists of ambassadors of Foo" as suggested above; likewise use of tree "Lists of ambassadors to Foo" Hugo999 (talk) 04:48, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 *  Rename per nom. Tim! (talk) 18:07, 25 April 2017 (UTC)


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Category:African television series

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 07:08, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting african television series


 * Propose deleting east african television series


 * Nominator's rationale: Non-defining ubercategories for television series by continent or continental region instead of country. "African television series" is the only television series category that exists at the continental level rather than the country-specific one, and in fact it's never been properly populated either -- "East African television series" is its only content, and even that one in turn parents only Kenya and Uganda but none of the other East African countries. And other than that, they each formerly contained some duplicate categorization of a number of shows that were already in the Kenyan or Ugandan categories anyway and thus didn't require either of these. There's simply no evidence that we need this. Bearcat (talk) 06:11, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Agreed. "Television series by country" and "Television in X country" (under "Television in Africa") are sufficient parent categories. czar  19:03, 6 March 2017 (UTC)


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